The trapping of the sun's heat in the lower atmosphere of Earth, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiations from the sun than to infrared radiations emitted from the planet's surface is known as

Greenhouse effect

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Solution

The correct option is A Greenhouse effect
The effect is known as the greenhouse effect and it results in heating of Earth's lower atmosphere.

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